Cboe Australia has welcomed XTB’s innovative exchange-traded corporate bond products (XTBs) to the Cboe Funds platform. In partnership with XTB, Cboe Australia has launched a series of XTBs which provide retail investors with access to corporate bonds from four of Australia’s largest companies, Aurizon, Bank of Queensland, Coles, and Qantas. XTBs...
Companies in Australia have turned to the local debt market this year selling a record amount of local currency bonds as domestic borrowing costs rise more slowly than the US and banks replace funding that was cheap due to Covid-era measures. According to Bloomberg AUD$73 billion has been raised so...
Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc. asked Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., and Barclays Plc to canvas investors for a potential senior unsecured debt offering last week and then made its bond-market debut with a US$10 billion deal. Meta had not previously entered the bond...
Blue-chip U.S. companies are expected to ramp up their issuance over the next two weeks even as the markets digest the new coronavirus variant which has caused shakiness across the board since Friday. Bloomberg is reporting that Wall Street syndicate desks are projecting about US$35 billion of new investment-grade issues...
Corporate watchdog ASIC is warning of a fake Qantas corporate bond scam targeting Australian investors. ASIC said it was aware Australians have been directly offered fake Qantas corporate bonds with interest rates of 7.75% per annum. "Scammers are using the legitimate Qantas bonds listed on the ASX which have a coupon...
Investors are using corporate bonds to boost prospective returns within their fixed income portfolios with government bond yields at record lows, which is creating a 'tailwind' for the asset class according to First Sentier Investors. The Global Credit Outlook 2021 paper argues prevailing economic conditions should underpin credit demand going...
Afterpay buy now pay later rival Zip has successfully priced an A$400m senior unsecured convertible notes offer. The notes are set to mature in April 2028 and are convertible into fully paid ordinary shares of Zip with an initial conversion price of A$12.39 per ordinary share, which represents a conversion...
A new series of notes will be issued by Centuria Capital No 2 Fund and listed on the ASX in a bid to raise $100 million. A statement by Centuria, an ASX-listed specialist investment manager with around $10.2 billion in funds under management in property funds and investment bonds, said...
The Reddit mania that catapulted GameStop shares has "reverberated through to the bond market", according to global equity manager Eaton Vance. Eaton Vance put AMC Entertainment, one of the largest movie theatre operators in the US and a prominent player in the European market, under the microscope. Portfolio managers at Eaton...
A green bond offering of US$144 million is being prepared by Altech Chemicals to help secure the remaining financing required for its high purity alumina (HPA) project in Johor, Malaysia. The Perth-based, ASX-listed  company this week announced it was working closely with London structuring agent Bedford Row Capital and Bluemount...

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